Coin-receptacle



W. C. HEINDL.

COIN RECEPTACLE- APPLICATION FILED FEB-26, 19:9.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

INVENTOR. M C? W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTGE.

WILLIAM C. HEINIDL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR TO BASTIAN BROTHERS 00., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

OOIN-RECEPTAGLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed February 26, 1919. Serial No. 279,452.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. HEINDL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- Receptacles, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention relates to coin receptacles and an object thereof is to provide a small receptacle which may be received within a pocket of a garment and may be locked against surreptitious opening. Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive structure which may be readily made from sheet.

metal.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of one face of the coin receptacle Fig. 2 is an edge view of the coin receptacle;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: is a view of the flat wall of the receptacle body;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the cover of the receptacle body;

Fig. 6 is a view of the inner face of the receptacle cover;

Fig. 7 is a detailed sectional view showing the coin slot and closure for said slot;

Fig. 8 is a detailed sectional view on the line 88 Fig. 4;

Fig. 9 is a detailed sectional view on the line 9-9 Fig. 4; and

Fig. 10 is a detail sectional view showing the manner in. which the cup shaped member connects with the flat side wall to form the body of the receptacle.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention there is provided a receptacle body and a cover. The receptacle body comprises a side wall formed of a sheet metal disk 1 having an inwardly bent and slightly overhanging peripheral flange 2, a sheet of celluloid 3 being arranged over the disk and the flange and being held in place on the disk by the outwardly deflected edge t of a cup shaped member which consists of an annular or cylindrical wall 5 and a flat side wall 6. The cover comprises a disk 7 with a laterally turned and partially overhanging peripheral flange 8, the disk and flange being covered by a sheet of celluloid or flexible material 9 which is held in place by a disk 10 received within the flange and pe sctiing against the free edges of the cellu- Interlocking connection between the cover and the receptacle body is preferably effected by providing a flat wall 6 of the receptacle body with a plurality of radial slots or openings 11 for receiving an annular series of tongues 12 which are struck up Igroin the disk or plate 10 on the cover memer. 6 inwardly as at 13 in order to facilitate the introduction of the tongues 12 to the radial slots or slits 11. The interlocking connection between the cover member and the receptacle body is obtained by pressing the cover member to the side wall 6 of the body so that the flange of the cover fits over the annular portion 5 ofthe body member and then rotating the cover member in its plane so that the tongues 12 will enter in the slots 11.

With the purpose in view of maintaining this interlocking connection, the cover member may be provided with a latch which in this instance, is preferably a tongue 14: formed from spring material and seated within the slot 15 provided in the disk 10, this slot being substantially co-eXtensive with the spring tongue or latch and the tongue or latch having its inner end soldered at 16 to the cover member. The receptacle body has a slot or opening 17 formed eccentrically within its flatside wall 6 and so arranged as to receive the deflected end of the tongue 14 when the cover member has been turned to interlock with the receptacle body. A side edge of the tongue will in this position engage the side wall of the opening 17 to prevent the turning of the cover to break the interlocking connection between the cover and the receptacle body.

It is preferred to provide for controlling the latch 1a through a key and to this end the annular wall 5 of the receptacle body is provided with a slot 18 through which a key 19 may be introduced. .Vithin the receptacle body a key support is provided comprising preferably a tongue or lug 20 in this instance, struck up from the metal of the bottom wall at the opening 17 and having a perforation 21 in which the end of the key is received in order to cause the key to rotate in a path in which it will engage with the tongue or latch 14 for the purpose of deflecting the latch into the opening 15 of the cover member so that the latch will become disengaged from the wall of the opening 17 in the receptacle body, permitting the cover member to be rotated in the direction to withdraw the lugs 12 from the radial slots 11.

Introduction of the coin into the coin receptacle may be secured by providing the annular wall 5 with a coin receiving slot 22 while the withdrawal of the coins from the receptacle may be obtained by providing the flat wall 6 of the receptacle with an opening 23 through which the coins may be readily discharged. To prevent the discharge of the coins through the coin receiving slot 22, a retainer is provided which preferably comprises a piece of celluloid or other yielding material 2% formed with a slot 25 through which a tongue 26 struck up from the bottom wall 6 is passed and is bent into engagement with the retaining device 24.

A coin receptacle constructed in accord ance with this invention is inexpensive to manufacture and provides a small compact structure which may be readily received within the pocket of a garment and which at the same time will be locked against surreptitious opening.

hat I claim as my invention and de sire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A coin receptacle comprising a body formed of a flanged side wall and a cup shaped member interlocking with the flanged side wall at its edge, the cup shaped member having its side wall provided with an eccentrically arranged opening and with radially arranged slots, the side wall ad jacent one side of each slot being deflected inwardly, a cover for the side wall of the cup shaped member, and tongues on the inner face of the cover projecting laterally with reference to radii of the cover for interlocking with the side wall by rotary movement of the cover.

2. A coin receptacle comprising a body formed of a flanged side wall and a cup shaped member having its edges engaged by the flange of said side wall, the side wall of said cup shaped member having a tongue cut therefrom to provide an'opening, said tongue being extended inwardly and having a key seat thereon, the cup shaped mem her having also an opening opposite said tongue through which a key may be introduced into engagement with said seat, a cover member for the side wall of said cup shaped member, said cover member interlocking with the side wallof the-cup shaped member by a rotary movement in its plane, and a latch eccentrically carried by the inner face of the cover member and adapted to enter the opening in the side wall of the cup shaped member to hold the cover member in interlocking relation with the cup shaped member.

3. A coin receptacle comprising a body having a wall provided with a coin slot and also a wall at an angle to the wall formed with the coin slot, said second named wall having a tongue struck up therefrom, and a closure for the coin slot arranged within the receptacle and secured by the tongue on the second named wall.

WILLIAM C. HEINDL. 

